Frank R Stockton

The Bee-Man of Orn Frank R Stockton

Book Excerpt: ...t move at all. It is the Ghastly Griffin and is enchanted. He can't stir so much as the tip of his whiskers for a thousand years. You can go to his cave and examine him just as if he were stuffed, and then you can sit on his back and think how it would be if you should live to be a thousand years old, and he should wake up while you are sitting there. It would be easy to imagine a lot of horrible things he would do to you when you look at his open mouth with its awful fangs, his dreadful claws, and his horrible wings all covered with spikes.""I think that might suit me," said the Languid Youth. "I would much rather imagine the exercises of these monsters than to see them really going on.""Come on, then," said the Very Imp, and he led the way to the cave of the Ghastly Griffin. The Bee-man went by himself through a great part of the mountain, and looked into many of its gloomy caves and recesses, recoiling in horror from most of the dreadful monsters who met his eyes. While he was wandering about, a..